>>I can't believe I just admitted I'm old enough to have listened to Tom Lehrer. I'm old enough to have Tom Lehrer albums.
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>Who's Tom Leher?
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< Sputter> < choke > Have you no sense of history? Have you never heard the classics like "Poisoning Pigeons In the Park"? "Masochism Tango"? "Lobachevsky"? "We Will All Go Together When We Go"? "The Elements"????? Don't you even get Dr. Demento out there in the styx????
Is this what passes for a highschool edumacation in this country?!?!?!?!
I'm ashamed to admit we've failed to adequately corrupt the up and coming youth of our nation.
Seriously, some of the funniest musical spoofs ever passed off as entertainment. The odds are someone of extreme age (ie able to vote) probably has at least a copy of "That Was the Year That Was" or "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer" somewhere. Amazon has some good stuff, including collections of his performances on CD:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000340N/drjohnholleman/104-8185625-6947651You are hereby obligated to make it to Miami this fall. I promise (threaten) to bring tapes!
